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Open AccessPrivatisation of government services in Australia: what is known about health and equity impacts
Historically in Australia, all levels of government created collective wealth by owning and operating infrastructure, and managing natural assets, key public goods and essential services while being answerable...
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Open AccessEvaluating local primary health care actions to address health inequities: analysis of Australia’s Primary Health Networks
Meso-level, regional primary health care organisations such as Australia’s Primary Health Networks (PHNs) are well placed to address health inequities through comprehensive primary health care approaches. This...
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Open AccessA framework of NGO inside and outside strategies in the commercial determinants of health: findings from a narrative review
Public health scholarship has uncovered a wide range of strategies used by industry actors to promote their products and influence government regulation. Less is known about the strategies used by non-governme...
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Open AccessFactors that influence evidence-informed meso-level regional primary health care planning: a qualitative examination and conceptual framework
Evidence-informed primary health care (PHC) planning in decentralised, meso-level regional organisations has received little research attention. In this paper we examine the factors that influence planning wit...
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Will neighbourhood liveability be promoted by new housing related planning policy in Adelaide, South Australia?
Health and health equity are strongly influenced by the design and planning of the neighbourhoods where people live, work, and recreate. This article looks at one aspect of neighbourhood liveability, housing. ...
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Open AccessAssessing the health impacts of transnational corporations: a case study of Carlton and United Breweries in Australia
The practices of transnational corporations (TNCs) affect population health through unhealthy products, sha** social determinants of health, or influencing the regulatory structures governing their activitie...
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Using Critical Theory to Research Commercial Determinants of Health: Health Impact Assessment of the Practices and Products of Transnational Corporations
Commercial determinants of health are the products and practices of private, for-profit organisations that affect population health and health equity. The practices, products and policy influence of transnatio...
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Researching Health for All in South Australia: Reflections on Sustainability and Partnership
The research involved a collaboration between University researchers and public servants who were involved in implementing Health in All Policies (HiAP) in South Australia. Drawing on our published work about ...
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Open AccessAssessing organisational capacity for evidence-informed health policy and planning: an adaptation of the ORACLe tool for Australian primary health care organizations
Many nations have established primary health care (PHC) organizations that conduct PHC planning for defined geographical areas. The Australian Government established Primary Health Networks (PHNs) in 2015 to ...
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How do advisory groups contribute to healthy public policy research?
This paper reflects on experiences of Australian public health researchers and members of research policy advisory groups (PAGs) in working with PAGs. It considers their benefits and challenges for building re...
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Open AccessWhy do some countries do better or worse in life expectancy relative to income? An analysis of Brazil, Ethiopia, and the United States of America
While in general a country’s life expectancy increases with national income, some countries “punch above their weight”, while some “punch below their weight” – achieving higher or lower life expectancy than wo...
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Open AccessGlobal health activists’ lessons on building social movements for Health for All
The People’s Health Movement (PHM) was formed in 2000 and drew inspiration from the Alma Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care’s ‘Health for All’ (1978). Since then PHM has been an active part of a global cou...
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Open AccessAustralian policies on water management and climate change: are they supporting the sustainable development goals and improved health and well-being?
Sustainable management of the natural environment is essential. Continued environmental degradation will lead to worsened health outcomes in countries and across generations. The Sustainable Development Goals ...
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Creating a whole-of-government approach to promoting healthy weight: What can Health in All Policies contribute?
This paper examines the opportunities and barriers that the South Australian Health in all Policies (SA HiAP) approach encountered when seeking to establish a whole-of-government response to promoting healthy ...
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Open AccessInteragency collaboration in primary mental health care: lessons from the Partners in Recovery program
Collaborative care is a means of improving outcomes particularly for people with complex needs. The Partners in Recovery (PIR) program, established in Australia in 2012, provides care coordination to facilitat...
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Open AccessTo what extent can the activities of the South Australian Health in All Policies initiative be linked to population health outcomes using a program theory-based evaluation?
This paper reports on a five-year study using a theory-based program logic evaluation, and supporting survey and interview data to examine the extent to which the activites of the South Australian Health in Al...
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Open AccessThe value of a causal loop diagram in exploring the complex interplay of factors that influence health promotion in a multisectoral health system in Australia
Despite calls for the application of complex systems science in empirical studies of health promotion, there are very few examples. The aim of this paper was to use a complex systems approach to examine the ke...
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Open AccessPunching above their weight: a network to understand broader determinants of increasing life expectancy
Life expectancy initially improves rapidly with economic development but then tails off. Yet, at any level of economic development, some countries do better, and some worse, than expected – they either punch a...
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A framework for regional primary health care to organise actions to address health inequities
Regional primary health-care organisations plan, co-ordinate, and fund some primary health-care services in a designated region. This article presents a framework for examining the equity performance of region...
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Open AccessHow institutional forces, ideas and actors shaped population health planning in Australian regional primary health care organisations
Worldwide, there are competing norms driving health system changes and reorganisation. One such norm is that of health systems’ responsibilities for population health as distinct from a focus on clinical servi...
